The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

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GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, llyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon &3 published every Evening by HENRY BROOKS, Ziewspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. 411(141 yr AT.1. 0 11., AT LONDON 13P-11Mil5. ritis lia.Y.—horning, 12h. 30m.—Afternoon, 12h. 58m. lh. 27m.—Afternoon. lh. 60.. 715,9, jr ilit a lowed them to plunge, it must se em outrageous to all thinking minds to know that,, -so far from being ashamed of such extravagant and extreme measures, there is rejoicing made., and boastings heard of doings that bear no I;.ght of day upon them. One would think that even Prussian as h surance might forbear this last insult to the com mon sense, this outrage on the good taste, and this violation of the right feelings of the other great Powers of Europe. When we hear of trophies of such a war, of monuments to be erected in honour of such a dishonourable affair, we may well under stand how the mighty are fallen, and how much utilitarian influences have prevailed, to the extinc tion of better feelings and good faith. The present Ki n g of PRUSSIA has made nothing but blunders since he first came to the throne. He has disap t pointed the expect a ti ons o f a ll w h o h a d prop h ec i e d I that he would do better things than his predeces sors. The self-sufficiency which prompted him to take the crown from the altar and place it upon his head with his own hands was symbolical of the proud perversity and arrogant assumption with which he intended to rule, or rather to mis-rule, the people whom Providence had committed to his care. Since that memorable day how dark has been his doings. He has come promised the liberties of the country at home, and for ever tarnished its honour abroad. He has been in league with the great enemy of European liber ties to put down freedom at any cost, and done all directly and indirectly to crush out the smouldering fire of liberty in unhappy Poland. He has listened to the counsels, and kept as a constant adviser a statesman whose policy has called forth the indig nation of all Europe. His course in respect to Den mark has signally disgraced him as a King, and been unworthy of his position in every respect; in short, no Monarch of conscientious principles, and no ruler inspired with a spirit of magnanimity, would think of allowing such a war to be made. Still more would he have disdained the mode of its procedure, and have refused to listen to the terms of the propositions for peace. What can be said in defence of a ruler who makes an attempt to cele brate the course of this war by the erection of monuments it is difficult to imagine. Doubtless some apologists may be found, but never will their arguments prevail in communities that share the honest conviction, and are actuated by the honour able feelings, of freemen. What is there to be proud of in the affair ? It is a disgrace to the army of Prussia to imagine that there was any difficulty to advance in their engagements with the Danes. For Denmark to be proud of her troops is another affair altogether. Well might that gallant and little nation have honoured their soldier sons who so nobly exposed themselves to fearful odds, and that without hope of success to crown their efforts, and reward their endeavours. Of them it may truly be said in the poet's glowing words— They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. The column about to be erected at the Hotel des Invalides at Berlin in memory of the late war, will be the monument of a lasting disgrace to that city. Those who set it up little know the harm that they are doing, nor the reproach that will be visited on their work. The more considerate among themselves blush to hear of such a purpose, and bitterly regret the nation that suggested its erection. Rightly considered, it is one of the most barefaced attempts to ignore the criticism lavishly heaped upon the unfair contest that has ever been witnessed. If King WILLIAm's latest order be attended to, he will have ample cause to regret its fulfilment. If he spared long enough to outlive the temporary clamour of all this make-believe glory he will hear plenty of reactionary statements. War cannot last for ever, and when the people of Prussia find that they have been hoodwinked into giving up their civil rights for a war that has brought them no honour, they may one day point with bitter scorn to a trophy that celebrates the triumph of Might against Right. It is a bitter thought for English men to dwell upon that this monument is to dis figure a capital where the eldest daughter of England is one day expected to reign as a Queen. It is quite inconsistent with the views and senti ments of this nation that the success of the strong over the weak in a cruel war waged from no ex cusable motive should be thus signalised and set forth in triumph. No real honour rests with the affair, and Rhea in the course of time the more &I , grant instances of Prussian exaction shall have almost faded out of recollection, a glance at this miserable memento will serve to bring back the past in all its horrors to the memory. It will be a landmark of tyranny and oppression, and a trophy of the triumph of wrong. If such are to be set up in the high places of a city, it is pretty evident that the national spirit is not alive to the true instincts of honour, and the popular recognition of greatness is indeed obscured, if not altogether lost. The arrival of the Calcutta mail fails to bring us any striking intelligence, and we may congratulate ourselves that such is the case. The wayfarer who journeys along the broad and beaten highway has little to tell when be gets to his journey's end ; it is the traveller through rough and dangerous wilds who has to encounter risks, dangers, and discom forts, who can give us an animated and exciting narrative. La like manner the country which is on 1 the high road of peace and prosperity, cannot hope to compete in interesting intelligence with lards that are desolated by a foreign invader or agitated by internecine strife. Of the Bhootan affair we hear very little. The Viceroy is, it is said, opposed to war if it can possibly be avoided; and again, it is stated in other quarters that he will not suffer the maltreatment of a British Envoy to pass un punished. The Bhooteas, it is said, did not extort the renunciation of the whole of Assam in the unlucky treaty, but only of such parts as they wanted. At all events the Government is silent, and the authorities endeavour, as far as possible, to check discussion on the matter, thinking, perhaps, that it is better the Bhooteas should not sup pose we attach much importance to a tran saction which, whatever its results, at present savours of the ridiculous. Preparations are being made in the arsenal, however, and a re connoitring officer has been sent to the north-east frontier to collect information, with a view to the possibility of the jest becoming earnest. Forewarned is forearmed, and whatever line of conduct the Bhooteas may determine upon following, it ii scarcely likely that our authorities will be unpre pared to deal with them. The Mussulmans are still restless and mischief making. The headquar ters of their disaffection are at present at Petrie, where their proceedings are closely watched. While the Government is on its guard there is not much fear that the grand Mussulman's prophecy of over. throwing the British rule this year will advance very far towards its fulfilment. The religious fanaticism of India had just received its most con• spicuous illustration when the mail left. The great Juggernaut saturnalia, which combines the t wo great Lasts of Ilindoo worship, had come off with un wonted eclat, three voluntary victims being crushed to death beneath the wheels of the triumphant car. From the description of the throngs which pressed around this dismal chariot, it is not difficult to imagine that accidents were likely to occur, and the 1 police version of the matter upholds this theory. But it appears from the testimony of European eye-witnesses, that the unfortunate wretches flung themselves under the wheels, and the shouting crowds around them testified to the same effect. The chief part of the festival is the progress of the immense cars, of which most persons in this country have seen some kind of representation. They are about 60 feet high, built in four storeys, and are moved on six wheels. They are drawn by means of ropes which the fanatics eagerly dispute the honour of dragging, and being crowded with the Brahmins of various degrees who escort the idols are of no light weight. It certainly would not seem to a European to be a very attrac- tive mode of committing suicide, to be crushed beneath the wheels of this slowly advancing mon ster. There have been not a few distraught mortals among ourselves who have flung. away life and care before an express train, but the swiftness and cers tainty of the death might not be without its fasz,i nation. The suicide remains to be found who would prostrate himself before an omnibus. The worst part of the affair is, that it affords us another proof of how strong a hold the fanaticism of their creed still has over the Hindoo mind, and it shows us how much yet remains to be done of our most important task. It is well to introduce English capital and enterprise, to encourage commerce and stimulate the dormant energies of the people by opening fresh channels for industry and developing the resources of the country, hut England's work in India remains incomplete while such spectacles are possible. Oar puiplic works, when fully carried out, are likely to prove substantial blessings to many an Indian generation. The parched and famine-stricken lands will gather fresh verdure and fertility from the waterworks projected by English science; the trader and agriculturist will send his goods down the canal on the highway which Eng- lish enterprise has opened to him ; while the marvels of steam and electricity will bring their blessings to the people; but so long as suttee, in fanticide, and human sacrifices form part ,of the Hindoo code, our task will not be done. There is nothing more difficult than to uproot an ancient faith, and to substitute a new one in its place ; but, as the old Latin adage tells us, " truth is great and must prevail." It is the ignorance of the Hindoos that is the stronghold of their superstition, and as the advancing tide of civilisation removes the bul wark, the fanaticism itself must surely give way. Our duty as a Government is, undoubtedly, to leave the work to time and tolerance, not to interfere harshly or violently with native prejudice. But we have manifestly a right, in the maintenance of public order, to repress with the strong hand of the law such atrocities as those of the Juggernaut pro cession, the suttee, and others which offend our national code of Christian morality. It is to be hoped that for the future the authorities will watch the proceedings of Juggernaut and his votaries a little mote closely, and make some person, or per sons, responsible for the proper and orderly conduct of the great procession of the cars. The Last Year of the Old Fire Insurance Duty, As the year 1863 was the last in which the mil form duty of 3s per cent. was levied for the whole period, the Parliamentary return on this subject, just issued, has a special interest. From it we find that the Sun is the largest insurance company hay. ing its principal office in London, and the Royal is the largest whose chief establishment is in the pro vinces. The next companies in order of magnitude to the Sun and the Royal are the Phceniz and the London and Liverpool. The amount paid by all the London companies was £999,071, and by all the country ones £715,152 ; the total being £35,207 in excess of the previous year. This increase is, how ever, very unequally distributed among the different offices, some having contributed a material advance of business, and others showing a decrease. The largest increase is again exhibited, as in several previous years, by the Royal Insurance Company, which, indeed, figures for nearly one-fourth of the whole. Of course, the year 1861 will show a great diminution in the duty collected by all the insurance companies, as the reduced rate on stock commenced in April of this year. Annexed is a table of the respective increases and decreases in the duty payments of all the offices for 1863 as compared with 1862: INCREASES. Royal £12,934 8 10 L'pool & London.lo,7lo 5 2 North British and Mercantile .... 7,981 1 5 Lcndon4 I..ancas. s,Ol 17 7 Queen 4857 1 4 C ommercial Union 1. , 363 15 5 Northern Imperial Alliance 2,505 11 5 County Phcemx Law ... 1,715 12 8 Scottish Union„ 1,292 1 0 Lon don 1,219 15 6 General 1,020 11 8 Provincial ...• • Law Union Royal Exchange 702 1 0 Hand in Hand Caledonian 663 16 7 Scottish Provincial 550 15 g Yorkshire ..... 601 16 7 B rming ham Lancashire Leeds & Yorksh re 315 2 8 Midland Counties 140 18 9 Globe Kent District Royal Farmers 185 18 0 Church of England £177 11 5 Guardian J l6O 16 7 Scottish National 159 H 3 Sheffield Essex and Suffolk 12) 2 8 Norwich Union Manchester lc9 16 2 Town and County (Dundee) Shropsiire ... and Aortn Wilts 98 13 8 Volunteer Service 88 7 7 Notts add Derby, 79 It 5 tialop Emperor West of England 35 51 1 NorwichEquttable 14 2 2 DECREASES. Stewarton,Dunlop, &c. Netherlands I 15 0 Equitable Hants, Su sex, & _ .I)oret 6 7 1 Preserver Ultrajectum 27 19 1 National of Ireland 125 11 8 Uni0n....... Atlas 3OO 13 7 Pa riotic Westminster Sun 4,116 13 co The New Bower Operetta House. This little theatre, which had become notoriously one o f the most objectionable places of amusement in London, has been recently taken by Mr Walter Kimber, with the view not only to "revive its fortunes," but at the same time to introduce a higher class of more pleasing entertainments for the play-going public "down about this 'ere quarter." The spirited manager commenced by thoroughly sweeping out the old Augean stable, which is now transformed into a neat, comfortable, and pleasing little operetta house. Mr Kimber merits every success for his bold effort to raise the fortunes of a truly fallen house. The company which has been got together, as a whole, is a fair and passable one. Four pieces were put on the stage last evening, and on the whole creditably performed, viz., "The Kiss and the Rose," by Howard Payne, and " Her only Failing," a new and original comedietta by S m yth Lee, Esq. In this piece Miss Emma Mansell manifested her talents as an actress, and her very beautiful song, "The pleading of the heart," was loudly and deservedly encored. The new burlesque of " Cymon and Iphigenia " is smartly written, and seemed well adapted to the place and the audience, and was carried out with great spirit on the part of all the actors. " Iced Champagne" closed the evening's programme, There is just one word in passing that we would whisper Into the ear of the manager, and that is, to avoid injadici °ll°ll' using too large capital letters in announcing bis "swans," for somehow if the public are disappointed when the bird has been seen and heard, they are very likely to say, " well, it is but a goose' after all," STRUGGLE ON THE PARAPET OF LONDON BRIDGE.—Last evening Mr,Payne, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Vestry-hall, Fair-street, Southwark, respecting the death by suicide of Mary Ann Mann, aged 43. John Nare, No. 3, Blue Anchor-road, Bemondsey, said that lost Sunday morning, about 8 o'clock, he was crossing London-bridge. A boy called out to him — "Master, there is a woman going to drown herself !" He then saw the deceased with one leg over the parapet of the bridge, She was standing in the middle recess of the centre at- h. Ho rushed forward and caught hold of her by the arm. She struggled fearfully. He tried to pull her back, but could not do so. He then let her go, and she fell into the water. Her head was first dashed against the stone work of the bridge. The witness just saved his own life. Geo. Mann, No. 10, Great Arthur-street, St. Luke's, a cigar-maker, said that the deceased was his wife. For the last eight weeks she had been very ill. She frequently said she would go and drown herself, because she had dreadful pains in her back. Mrs E. Speller said that the deceased had fallen downstairs last Thursday. After that she said to witness " I feel so low-spirited that I shall go and kill myself." The coroner having summed up the jury re turned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind." THE ALABAMA AND SUMTER.—Already Captain Semmes' narrative of his cruises on board the Alabama and Sumter has reached a second edition, and Messrs Saunders, Utley, and Co., announce that the work has been carefully revised. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1864. It has long been decided that the age of chivalry is past, and surely if any confirmation were wanting to the fact the Dano-German war has furnished proof positive to that effect. • From the commence ment to the close of this unequal struggle we have witnessed nothing but extravagant extortion and cruel aggression on the part of the German Powers. Their course has been unparalleled in the annals of modern times for rapacity and revenge, and this, too, on a harmless people who had done them no injury. Whatever there has been to denounce cn the part of the Russians in their conduct towards Poland, and to deplore in the sufferings of that wretched land, it is certain that where once des perate natures have held sway they are not likely to lose their hold without making a most desperate resistance. The prey once grasped is still hen .' kered after, and it is no easy matter to make the spoiler yield his prize, however unlawful might have been the means that once put it into his pos session. This reason, for it cincot be called an excuse, does not in any way bold good in respect to the attitude assumed by the Germans in regard to Denmark and the Dines. They never held dominion over the place they now so ruthlessly attack, nor ruled over the people they relentlessly persecute. Their vehement course, their violent demeanour, and their fierce fighting for territory show the bent of their grasping minds and the want of consideration that actuates their course. If any thing could have aroused the inaction which uu fortunately seized upon Europe at the time when the united armies proceeded on their cruel expedi• tion, surely it must have been the manner in which the theories were put into practice, and the designs executed by the aggressors. It was bad enough to go to war at all, but to carry on the contest in such a style as has been chronicled was outrageous in the extreme. In times when honour was more thought of an universal outcry from all the nations of Christendom would have been raised against the depredators, who in plenitude of po wer and pride of possession marched on to carry desolation into smiling provinces, and make the homesteads of happy peasants the scene of slaughter. It would appear from the testimony of all witnesses and the general aspect of affairs, as if the desire of the German Powers had been to erase Denmark altogether from the map of Europe, and ea incorporate her ravished territories with those of her enemies, that the next generation would have had nothing of a tangible nature to remind them of the existence of that gallant little kingdom which sent forth such brave armies to meet the advances of a Powerful and pitiless foe. Doubtless the general expression of public opinion in England, ae d the strong language employed in the great de b a t e on foreign affAirs towards the close of the session, in some measure contributed to stay the sacrifice and modify the catastroph e . I n F rance, political reason s noth i ng was also, although for done of a material nature to afford assistance, the sympathy of the press and people were warmly ex pressed on behalf of the assailed State ; and all these secondary interpositions combined to elle, viate the horrors of the final scene. Yet, wh en we refl'Jet upon the tidings that reached us of the r eo d e in which the warfare was carried on, the unneces. nary violence added to the inseparable horrors of war, the brutality in which the Prussian troops in dulged, and the mews into which their officer*. TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1864. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Webster, as Triplet, in "Masks and races," All theatre-going Londoners, who may happen to be still detained in town, are, at any rate in one respect, in luck's way, for that precise reason— because they yet happen to be Londoners ! If they have but the smallest capacity for appreciating what it is that constitutes the true genius of acting, they may find, any evening this week, upon the stage of the Adelphi Theatre, far more than merely compensation fur the delay of their holidays, whether at the seaside or upon the continent. In saying this we speak strictly within the mark, feelingly, and from our own cape. rience. Announced for six representations (that is, for the whole of this present week, beginning with last evening), "Masks and Faces"—the celebrated cennedy written conjointly, after the Beaumont and Fletcher fashion, by Torn Taylor, Playwright, and Charles Reede, Novelist—is now being nightly enacted by the Adelphi Company ! With Mrs. Stirling—sparkling, perennial, sterling Mrs. Stir ling—as the Peg Woffington ! With, alto gether, one of the very best casts, there has ever yet been upon any boards, of this exquisite Hale two-act drama I Above all, with Mr. Benjamin Webster as Triplet--that true Artist's Original Character I Mr. Webster's Triplet —we do not hesitate to pronounce (and this without one single exception) the very finest piece of acting that can any where nowa days Le witnessed. It is a truly noble and affecting impersonation. For ourselves, we could witness it any number of times, night after night, and with increasing satisfaction. It is more than simply a creation of consummate art. It has—besides —that oneineffable touch perfecting every truly great work of art, that " ens touch of nature," that not only (as the greatest of poets says) "makes the whole world kin," but that stamps the true metal of the artist with the royal "hall mark" of Genius. Mr. Webster's Triplet is, in a single word, a masterpiece. Throughout his impersonation of Triplet, whenever he is before the footlights in " Masks and Faces," he does whatever he lists with us as part of his audience —he is absolute master of our tears and of our laughter; Often and often, during the two acts, he is master of them (of our tears and of our laughter) together—simultaneously I So wonder• fully, indeed, are the pathetic and the ludicrous mingled together in his performance of Triplet—in the every tone of his Tolce, in the every glance of his eye, in all the quivering nerves of his mobile counte nance—that, again and again, we are gazing at him— with laughing eyes—through our tears. Whatever we might write thus of Mr. Webster's Triplet could not by any possibility be couched in words of extravagance or exaggeration. And this, for the simple reason, that the character of Triplet as repre-I seated by Benjamin Webster could not, to our mind by any possibility be portrayed by anyone with a nearer approach to perfection—with an art so cx. quisitely finished of its kind as to bear all the semblance of the absolute artlessness of Nature. In which of the principal scenes or situations of the drama, the genius of the Actor appears the most conspicuously, we should find it difficult indeed in any way to decide. Whether in the opening scene of the First Act, where Triplet, with his three tragedies just returned upon his hands from Mr. Rich, the manager, renews his forgotten acquaint ance with Peg Woffington —or in the banquet ting room at Mr. Vane's, where Mabel Vane touches the poor starving Poet's very heart with her kindness, plying him the while with wine and biscuits—or (" last scene of all" in this same "strange eventful" comedy of "Masks and Faces"), in the wretched garret where James Triplet, Poet, Playwright, Painter, Musi cian, Man of Arts, and Man of Letters, toils and starves with his poor invalid wife and his hungry little children ! Artistically viewed, perhaps the scene of scenes in the whole drama, is ono last mentioned. Though the others, the preceding scenes, are not one jot less admirably, are not one jot less inimitably touched into reality by the genius of the actor. Hogarth's immortal picture of " The Poet's Garrat" is therein— particularly in the opening part of the last wonderful scone in "Masks and Fdces"—Hogarth's pictare, is, as it were, now being nightly realized upon the stage of the Adelphi And is being realized,too, as (by the necessity of his dumb are) the powers of the great national painter's hand perforce failed to realise it I It is now virtually being realized, in other words, night after night, at the Adelphi Theatre—it is being realized there audibly as well as visibly— thanks to the marvellous capabilities for realization appertaining, among all the arts, alone to the his trionic art, as defined by Thomas Campbell, where the Poet of Hope sings : "Till by the mighty Actor wrought, Illusions perfect triumphs come, Versa ceases to be airy thought, And sculpture—" (he might also, as in this instance, have said painting) to ba dumb." Here, in this last act of" Masks and Faces," now, for at least every evening during this present week, it is as if in Hogarth's "Poet's Garret," the affecting drama of a real human life was being played out nightly by a Poor Poet. Not (like Hoge rth'e) a mere painted semblance of a Poet --but one living, moving, breathing, toiling, weeping, laughing in our presence — mastering all our tenderest emotions in turn while we watch him—surrounded, now by his patient wife and prattling children, now by radiant, kindly Peg Woffiugton and her entourage of wicked beaux and cynical critics, Mr Snarl and Colley Cibber, Ernest Vane, and Sir Charles Pomander ! To see for the first time Webster's Triplet, in " Masks and Faces," is—we would here quite confidently assert it —nothing less than an event in the life of the most fastidious of playgoers—and an event, too, that that most fastidious of playgoers must ever after wards bear with delight among the very choicest of his recollections. Death of Alexander llastie, Esq. that Glasg ow h as l os t anot h er o f h er It will b e t o man y a source o f d eep reg ret to learn public men in the death o f 111 r. A . H astie, who for ten y ea rs repre seated the city in Parliament. The melancholy event took place on the morning of Saturday last, at 3.30 a t L us k ar House, near D un f e rmline. M r Hastie h a d an attack of cerebral para ly s i s a b out six months ago , f rom t h e e ff ec ts of which he suf fered for some t i me, but he ha d so far re covere d as to b e a bl e partially :f S h ortlyp urchase d o Some owr aee t understandimt hee Glasgow. Last week he took his duties to which he has more or less devoted him self during a pretty lengthened connection with place as president to resume some of those w estate a neco necessary s L s aursy of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, and near Dumfxer7ms,loihoneoe appeared to be a good deal recovered, although still feeble-looking, the sum attack of paralysis,before ho had this kar, and last Thursday he left of L 70,000 or Glasgow, where, we to prepare it for the residence of himself and family, believe, he had been residing for the last few months, to enter upon the possessiora of it. On that occasion his health appeared to be considerably bet. ter, and the announcement of his death only two days afterwards came upon a few of his friends in Glasgow somewhat suddenly. Mr Hastie has left a widow (the daughter of Mr Napier of Shandon) and two daughters, girls of six and nine years of age, to mourn his loss, all of whom had the melan choly satisfaction of being with him in his dying moments, having accompanied him from Glasgow on Thursday. Mr Hestia was, we believe, in the 59th or 60th year of his sge.----31ail• Tut CONFEDERATE CRUISER FLORlDA,—Yester day a telegraphic message was received at Lloyd's, dated Lisbon, Aug. 15, announcing that intelligence had been received at that port, dated Bahia, July 28, that the Confederate war steamer Florida, in company with the steam cruiser Electric Spark, had just captured the Federal merchant ship Imfican, Captain Delills, bound from Cali fornia to New York, having 70,000 dols in specie on board, and an extremely valuable cargo. The Florida took out the treasure and portions of her cargo and her crew. The vessel and her cargo, valued at £20,000, were then set fire to and destroyed. _ Admiral the Hon. Edward and Mr. Howard have left Thomas Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Woolbediag, Sussex, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Europa.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 2. The news from the Army of the Potomac is of an important character. Another attack upon the de fences of Petersburg has resulted in disaster to the Federal arms. Oa the 28th Jane, under the super intendence of Col. Pleasant, an experienced Penn sylvania mining engineer, the Federals commenced to undermine a fort mounting six guns, considered the key to the first line of the Confederate works. By the 28th July the work was successfully accom plished. The tunnel leading to the mine was .500 feet in length, four feet wide at the bottom, and two feet at top, its height being five and a half feet. Six tons of powder were deposited in the mine : co-operate arrangements being effected, early on the morning of the 30th of July the mine was ex ploded with tremendous effect ; an immense column of dirt, timber, and other debris was thrown to a height of 300 feet; the fort was utterly demolished, and the garrison, composed of South Carolina troops, all either killed or wounded. Immediately after the explosion the Federal artillery opened a furious fire, under cover of which the Federals charged and captured nearly the entire first line of the Confederate entrenchments. The coloured troops of Burnside's corps were then advanced in two columns to sustain tha assaulting force and carry the minor works. The negroes at first ad vanced in good order. but, being furiously charged upon by the Confederates, they finally gave way and fled in confusion to the rear. The Confederates now bore down upon the white troops, forcing them b Ick, and inflicting upon them severe loss. General Bartlett and staff, and twelve or fourteen hundred Federals were made prisoners. The officers of the coloured troops suf fered severely while endeavouring to rally their men. The slaughter of the negroes is said to have been fearful. The entire Federal force finally re treated, under a severe fire of grape and canister, back to their own lines. The total Federal losses are estimated at from four to five thousand. Dur ing the charge immediately following the explosion of the mine the Federals aro reported to have cap tured four hundred prisoners. The Confederate troops engaged were mostly South Carolinians, under the immediate command of Beauregard. It is reported that on the day following the battle General Grant went to Fortress Monroe, and had a protracted consultation with President Lincoln. Latest advices, which are up to nine p,m on the 31st, state that hostilities had not been renewed. Grant had asked a truce to bury the dead. This the Con. federates refused, but a truce was finally agreed upon, and the dead were being buried, and the wounded lying between the two lines cared for. The Confederates refused to exchange newspapers, and had suspended all communication between the pickets. This was thought to indicate that Lee was executing some important movement, and was guarding against the possibility of its detection. Cars were heard running all night on the 30th, and it was rumoured that Lee was throwing forward heavy reinforcements either to Early or Hood. Prisoners report that Lee has for some time past been undermining the Federal works. No Con. federate accounts of the battle on the 30th have been received. The new Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania and Maryland seems to be enveloped in mystery. It is not known definitely to the public where or in what force the invaders are. A Harrisburg de. spatch reports them moving to Bedford County; another despatch represents them to be marching against Hancock, while another report is that they have entirely evacuated Pennsylvania, and are only in small force in Maryland. Nothing positive is known, but the general belief is that the main body of the Confederates is still between Winches ter and Martinsburg in the Shenandoah Valley, and that small bodies of cavalry are still operating in Pennsylvania. The report of the destruction of a portion of Chambersburg by the raiders is con firmed. It is stated that a force of about 250 under M'Causland entered the town on the afternoon of the 30th ult., and after an unsuccessful attempt to levy a contribution on the inhabitants of 500,C00 doll., fired the town in several places, after inform ing the people that the town would be destroyed in retaliation for outrages perpetrated in the Shen andoah Valley by the forces under Hunter. The Federal forces under General Averil came up during the conflagration, but, being unable to subdue the flames, started at once in pursuit of the raiders, who had fled upon Averill's approach. It was re ported that Averill overtook and routed them et M'Connellsburg. About 250 houses and public buildings were destroyed at Chambersburg, in volving a loss of several millions of dollars, and causing great suffering among the inhabitants. Latest advices from General Sherman's army report that on the 27th ult. General Hood made another attack upon Sherman's intrenched position, bat was repulsed with a loss of nearly 1,000 in killed. The Federal loss being a little over 600 in killed and wounded. Confederate accounts state that on the night o the 24th of July General Sherman attempted to break Hood's lines, but was repulsed by Cheatham after a sharp fight lasting an hour. General Hood has issued an address to his troops ,elling them that their safety in time of battle con- sieted in getting into close quarters with their enemy, that if the Federals were allowed to con tinue their flanking movements the Confederate cause would be imperilled, but that recent operations had proved that his soldiers had the power to prevent it. The steamer Clara Bell was attacked on the 24th ult. by a Confederate battery near Carrollton Land ing and entirely destroyed. Richmond papers announce the re-election of Governor Vance, in North Carolina. Holden, the peace candidate, receiving but few votes. The Southern papers regard Vance's election as an endorsement by the people of North Carolina of the policy of the Richmond Government. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, AUG. 2, r,m. The money market is active, 7 per cent. being he current rate for loans on first-class securities. Government Securities are depressed on account of the war news, but the heavy European orders sustain prices against any serious fall. Registered Sixes of 1881, 105; Coupon do,, 104! ; Seven Thir ties, 107; Five Twenties, 107; One Year Certifi ficates, 031. Gold is quiet at 258, and exchange moderately active at 28 for bankers' bills. The Share Market is active. Erie, 1103 ; New York Central, 1301 ; Hudson River, 1291 ; Read ing, 137 ; Illinois Central, 138; Michigan Southern, 893; Chicago and Rock Island, 113; ; Pittsburg, Fort Was ne, and Chicago, 114. Flour.—Market quiet. 9 dols. 20c. to 9 dols. 40c. for superfine State and Western; 9 dols. 80c. to 10 dols. for extra State; 10 dole. 150. to 10 dole. 25c. for choice State; 10 dole. 25c. to 10 4ole. 60c. for good shipping Ohio ; 10 dole. 75e. to 11 dole. 30c. for common ; and 11 dole. 40c. to 13 dole. for fancy aid extra Southern ; 9 dole. 90c. to 10 dole. 20c. for common ; and 10 dole. 25c. to 12 dole. for fancy and extra Canadian. Wheat.—StEad,y. 2 dols 220 to 2 dols 40c for Chicago Spring; 2 dcls 253 to 2 dols 41c for Mil• wanksi Club; 2 dols 42c to 2 dols 453 for Ambir Milwanksi ; 2 dole 58c for Winter Red Western ; and 2 dols 60c to 2 dols 62c for Amber Michigan. Pork.—Firm, 35 dols to 36 dols for mess ; 40 dols to 40 dols 25c for new ditto; 45 dols for prime; and 37 dols for prime mess. Beef.—Dall. 18 do's to 20 dols for unpacked, and 22 dols to 26 dols for extra mess. Ashes.—Quiet. 13 :lots 50c for pots, and 15 dols 25c to 15 do!s 50c for pearls. Cotton.—Steady. 1 dol 63c to 1 dol 64c for mid dling Uplands. ,„ Petroleum.—Steady. 50e to 51c for refined, and 82e to 83c for refined in bond. SPAIN. SAN SEBASTIAN, Aucii. 15, Evening. The inauguration of the Northern and Spanish Railway took place to-day. The King of Spain arrived at San Sebastian at noon. The religious ceremonies having been performed, and the engines having received the benediction, M. Isaac Pereire addressed his Majesty. A banquet followed at which the King presided, having on his right the Minister of Commerce and M. Emile Pereire, and on his left the Minister of the Interior and M. Isaac Pereire. The King was applauded with enthusiasm. No toasts were proposed. The Cabinet of Madrid has ordered Gen. Prim, ex-commander of the Spanish army in Mexico, to leave the capital, and has assigned him a fixed resi dence at Oviedo. This measure has been taken in consequence of the agitation recently prevailing at Madrid, and of the attempts at revolt made on other points. Gen. Prim is of the Progressista party. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE, ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, AUG. 6. Her Majesty's surveying steamer, Margaretta Stephenson, returned here this morning with Cyrus W. Field, Esq., on board. Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, has been selected as a landing place for the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. The harbour is one of the best in Newfound land. The Great Eastern can anchor within one mile o. the landing place. FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 15, The feta yesterday passed off very successfully. The illuminations were splendid, and the concourse of people immense. The Emperor came to Paris, and was warmly cheered wherever he was recognised: On the occasion of the Emperor's fete a conside' rable promotion has been made in the army. Generals of Brigade, Count de Clerambault, Guiod, and de Castagny have been promoted to the rank of General of Division, and Colonels Saget, De Lamorte Charens Franconiere, Ribourt, Duportal Dogoasmeur, Brayer, Martenot de Cordonne, Pelle, Begougne de Juniac, d'Espinassy de Venel, Barrel Danot, Aymard, and de Lascours to that of General of Brigade. The list also contains the names of 18 persons promoted colonels, and 35 lieutenant colonels. Other decrees on the proposition of the Minister of State make 13 promotions to the rank of com mander, 15 to that of officer, and 9 nominations to that of knight—Minister of Justice, two officers and 16 knights—Ministers of War, 12 commanders; 48 officers ; 321 knights—Minister of the Beaux- Arts, one officer and two knights. On the proposi tion of the Minister of War 530 military medals have been conferred on sob-officers, corporals, and privates in the army; and on that of the Minister of Marine, 161 on warrant officers and seamen in the navy. Baron de Waechtcr, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Wurtem berg, had the honour of a private audience of the Emperor on Sunday, at St Cloud, to deliver his new credentials. His Majesty also received a reply from the King of Bavaria to the letters by which the Emperor had put an end to the mission filled by Count de Reculot at Munich. By Imperial decree Rear-Admiral Paris, Director General of the Depot of Naval Charts and Plans, and Rear-Admiral Reynaud, Commandant-in-Chief of the Naval Direction of the Antilles and of North America, have been promoted to the rank of Vice- Admiral, and Captains de Dompierre, and Penhoat to that of Rear-Admiral. The Prince of Augustenburg, it appears, has resolved to defer to the desire of the Diet, relative to the justification of his claim to the succession. Counsellors Samwer, Michelsen, and Haenel have been charged to draw up this memorandum which, at most, can only reproduce the documents and arguments already known. Several journals have stated that the Prince had been requested to leave the country, but advices from Hamburg represent these rumours to be altogether unfounded. BOURSE, Aug. 13.—Market firm, but without any material improvement in the amount of busi ness. Threes are now at 66f. 45c, Mobilier have slightly improved, having been last done at 1,016 f. 25c. Railway Market firm, with but trifling varia tion in prices. The market closed as follows : 4± per Cents. 95 Uo. end month.... Italian Loan 6B 30 Do. end month 6B 35 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican m a Russian Austrian .. B3 Spanish Threes — Home Debt Defend FAICS. Cash. Account. °Hearty .... 882 50 .. 885 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 .. 926 25 New ditto Southern 643 75 .. 64.2 60 Western Eastern Sardinian .. 350 .. 347 50 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 515 510 Ditto to Barcelona 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 45 Credit M0bi1ier,,,,1917 50 Do. end m0rith....1016 25 Bank Shar©s 3380 Credit Foncier 1220 Roman BA IL The French Tribunal of Correctional Police last week tried M. Repos, the responsible editor, and M. Riquier, the printer, of the journal La Taroisse, for having published a periodical treating of political matters without first ob taining the authorisation of the Government. The article incriminated was on the Pontifical Brief of Lyons, The Tribunal condemned each of the prisoners to a month's imprisonment with 100 f, fine, and ordert.d that the journel should cease to appear. DEATH OF KISS KATHERINE SOUTIIEY,_The last living link connecting the name of Southey with Keswick has just passed away, more than 60 years having elapsed since the late Laureate fixed his residence in the lake metropolis, Miss Katherine Southey, the third and only unmarried daughter of the poet, was born ac Greta , hall, and reached her 54th year on Monday. She had been for some time confined to her room, and died on Friday eight of congestion of the brain, at Lairthwaite-cottage, Keswick, where her aunt, Mrs Lovell, expired a few years since, By the death of Miss Southey a civil list pension of £lOO per annum reverts to the Crown. She will be buried on Tuesday in Crosthwaite churchyard, under the shade of Skiddaw, where already repose her father and mother, her brother Herbert, the eldest-born, and her sisters Emma and Isabel. CARDIGANSIIIRE.—In the event of Col. Powell resigning his seat for this count y—a contingency more than probable —we have authority for stating that Sir Thomas Lloyd, of Bronwydd,will solicit the suffrages of the electors as an independent supporter of Lord Palmerston's Govern ment. CRYSTAL PALACE.—This day and during the week, by the kindness of Sir Joseph Paxton, the grounds of Itockhills, adjoining the palace, will be open to the in spection of visitors to the palace, between the hours of two arta six, eittart! iiregt HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 15. The Queen and Royal family walked in the grounds this morning. E,rl Russell he.B left Osborne. His Royal Highness" the Dake of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, the Hon. Col. Curzon, and a lady in waiting, arrived in Aberdeen on Saturday by the limited mail train at 12 30 p.m. ; and after taking lun cheon in the Douglas Hotel, and visiting various parts of the city, the party left by the Deescle train at 2 30 p.m. f or Aboync, on their way, it is understood, to Abergeldie, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. His Excellency the Danish Minister, M. de Bille, is expected to leave town, to-day or to-morrow, for Denmark. it is said his excellency will return to this country within a few weeks in order to marry Miss Doraville. The Duke of Leinster leaves town in a day or two for Carton House, Maynooth. The Marquis Conyngham has left Cowes, Isle of Wight, in his yacht, for Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Saafield have left Castle Grant, for his lordship's shooting -box at Balearrao, where a select party is about to meet the noble earl, The Countess of Listowel has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton will entc" tain a select party at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, the present month. The Count de Blomo has left th e Cl are ndon Note' for Paris. during Lord West has arrived in Grosvenor-street on his way to Scotland. Lord Kensington and family have left the hotel Mirabeau, Paris, for Germany. BAron A. de Rothschild has left Thom as's Berkeley-square, for Vienna. Lady William Russell has been indisposed for the past few days, . Sir A. and Lady Arabella Bannerman are cruibivg off Cowes, in their beautiful yacht, the Gem. Colonel F arqu h arson of Invereauid has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Scotland. GREAT STRIKE- OF DOCK WORICIIO' LATEST PARTICULARS THIS DAY. A number of men, variously estimated at between 80 ' and 1,200, are this morning wandering about Rotherhithet and 'to Grand Surrey and Commercial Docks, having in tl:alged in one of these " strikes " 11 hick have proved so formidable in past times in other trades. On this occasion the strike does not arise out of any difficu'les with regard to time or hours of labour, but simp l y a question of wages. For some months past there seems to have been a growing spirit of dissatisfaction amongst the class of men NO" are known as deal port ers , l an di ng sorters an d pilera a These largo establishments, and as their services h ays been of a very important ; character in the prose cution of the business, as well as of a very fuelling' nature, many attempts have been made by the authori ties to conciliate them, but the number am ongst whom the dissatisfaction originally arose has rapid l y '°- creased, until at l eng th it h as cu l m i nated in the s trilte• Some of the b es t o f th ese wor k men former ly receive ( ' about 5s a day, b ut as b us i ness became more pressing the amount of pay wa s i ncrease d unt i l it reache d as much i n some cases as 7s 10d a d ay . S o l arge an amoun t, how ever, f was only received d ur i ng a b out h alf the yea r. All ' what raay be called the wo r ki ng b us i ness o f the docks 115, conducted by contractors, acti ng un d er t h e director s, and and the large amo un t o f b us i ness t h ey under t a ke seems: have impressed the men with th e id ea th a t th e y were ing Jar ge fortunes out of their labour, and that they should more fully participate in these advantages. The contractors, however, took a different view of the case, and considering that the wages they allowed were ample, refused any fur ' ther increase. The men who have struck seem likely to be thrown into a very deplorable position. At present they aro not suffer ing from absolute d es ti tu ti on , as i n some cas es some small portions of their last week's wages are unspent. A. different state of things, however, will necessarily have arisen at th e end of this week, if they persevere in remaining cut of their employment. They have no trades unions of the ir own, and no funds on which they can draw during the strike. It is said that other societies and trades to whom these men lent aid when they were in a similar position will aid them, but such contributions will necessarily be very This morning about half a dozen of the men who struck have gone into the docks with their tools, and have re commenced work. They have been received without any remarks being made upon theft conduct, and the contractors have determined on adopting the most conciliatory tend towards all who wish to return. At the same time, they have expressed their determination not to yield a single inch, and this morning they have transferred men from other departments to do the work which the men out on strike have left unperformed. There are foreign workmen, too, whom the contractors wi,l be compelled to put on, 05 the business of the docks is just now very heavy. The police report that no disturbances have yet taken place, and that the men seem disposed to be quiet. A strong force of police, however, is scattered about in the event 0 1 any violent measures being adopted. There seems to be no doubt that the strike will prove a great drawback to the business of the docks for some time , but that difficulty the contractors express themselves pre pared to meet at whatever cost. BEADING ALOUD.—There is no position in which civilised man can possibly feel less complacent than when he undertakes to read his own effusions aloud before a literary censor. In giving readings in public, he is com paratively at ease, since by their very presence the audience tacitly confess their inferiority, and he knows that he would not return the compliment by listening to one of them on any account whatever. But when a critical individual has the right of saying: "I don't quite follow you there ;" or "I doubt whether that scene be not somewhat coarse ;" or (heavens and earth I), " Excuse me, but do you not think that that last chapter was just little tedious ?" I say that, under such circumstances, there is no man more to be pitied than the sucking author. Only imegine if the critical person should be drowsy, and the unhappy reader be compelled to resort to unworthy devices to recall him tea sense of his situation—such as dropping the manuscript with a great deal of noise and fluttering; inquiring with anxiety as tO whether the wretch found himself quite comfortable; or even remarking with meaning : "Be so good, Mr Critic, IT , to give me your best attention during the ensuing p e isode• Can any position be more humiliating P Can self-resPec be destroyed by any more appalling method ? I an swer No ; not at least within the limits of probability. A lth°" ;t; perhaps, a parallel situation may be found in some ‘"'" effirt of the imagination, such as the being appointed ana tioneer while our infants are being disposed of by PriblciG roup, when the depreciatory remarks of very small bidders might perhaps produce an equal pain. A tragedi o an in want of an engagement, giving a private specimen f i t talents before a manager—apostrophising the elements' Lea, before an audience of one, a n d th a t one, perhaPet i Jew bankrupt—must find it tryin g wor k. But then be g s s not uttering his own sentiments, th e self-chesen langa 'a of his own heart, each carefully-c o i n ed and Wel l-Wejgh word of which is dear to him. One's proposal of Warri n to some beautiful and accomplished young fern ale ' is per haps as embarrassing: but then it is soon over. you havoc not to plead for a couple of hours or so, while your es ° makes no sign, either one way or the other, bu t ang liii herself indifferently, with a toothpick, as your cr itic to do. In particular, it is impossibl e t o read one , s p oet a cl iot . any advantage under such circumstances. Tn e c ‘ b ,,,eha t ' wheels jar in the gate through which we drive then` From Married Beneath _Him, in Cha' nibers's Te am G. Richards, the deputy coroner , h e ld an inque st KILLED BY A WAGG ON .—L as t e vening I\ '` r. t hee at it London Hospital as to the death of a woman unknoWll. appeared by the evidence that on Thursday morning 1010 the deceased was standing at the corner of Great Garden street, Whitechapel, in a state of intoxication, holding her self up by leaning against a post, w hen a waggon la den with sever a l h ogs h ea d s of sugar tou ched her dress ; she fell into the carriageway, and befor e the driver had time to atop the horses the wheels passed over her body and arms, which were fearfully crushed. Sh e was removed to the heap itsit where she died from severe internal injuries. The driver was driving with reins and was going at a walking Pa"' After the evidence of the house-surgeon the ju& returned a verdict of "Accidental death." THE D R OI.IOIIT AT THE IRON AND COAL WORIC-S. —The scarcity of water is so great at the iron, tinplate, and and coal works of South \Vales, that at many establisla ments the principal departments are at a complete stand still. Hundreds of hands are in consequence thr own oat o f employ, and Loth masters a nd men are suffering by t4D d r ought. The rain th a t f e ll l as t wee k brought a suPPIY ,J, water for a day or tw o , b u t t h e reappear ance of the scorch ing hot weather h as cause d a seoond drought, a ltues severer than the one a f or t n i g ht ago. As instances o f the great loss to t ra d e f rom want o f water, it may be mentione that at sever a l wor k s th e ma k e o f i r on and tin-plat es for the last six weeks could have been turned out in one we ek, with an ample supply of water. Even the canals are their journeys within the usual time. COMPENSATION FROM A RAILWAY COMr- We understand that Mr. Hodgson, who was so s 't e N e l: .e : l B ) : injured by the accident which occurred on the reectal pony, ted a sear I'enicuick, at the back end of last year, ages end compromise with the North British RailwahyasCnittPsl337' who undertake to pay him £l,OOO in lieu of dar u expenses.—.Freblesshire .41cicertiser.